African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Petricola bicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1854

AfReMaS taxon details

Petricola bicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1854

AphiaID

507420 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507420)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Petricola Lamarck, 1801

Original name

Petricola bicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1854

Environment

marine

Original description

Sowerby, G. B. II. (1854). Monograph of the genus Petricola, Adanson. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2: 771-777, pl. 166. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11075997
page(s): 776, pl. 166 fig. 22 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Petricola bicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1854. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507420 on 2025-11-11

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Petricola bicolor G. B. Sowerby II, 1854. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507420 on 2025-11-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2012-07-07 17:10:24Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2018-05-21 20:04:31Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

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original description Sowerby, G. B. II. (1854). Monograph of the genus Petricola, Adanson. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2: 771-777, pl. 166. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11075997
page(s): 776, pl. 166 fig. 22 [details]

basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]

additional source Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 201 [details]

additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 244. [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

status source Kilburn, R.N. (1977) Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 173–214., available online at https://journals.co.za/content/annals/23/1/AJA03040798_574 [details]